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082 _a327.5405493
_bKRI/P
100 _aKrishna, Sankaran
245 0 _aPostcolonial insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the question of nationhood/
_cSankaran Krishna
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bOxford University Press,
_c1999.
300 _axxxviii, 316 p. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _apt. I. Narratives in Contention: Indian, Sinhalese, and Tamil Nationalisms -- 1. Mimetic Histories: Foreign Policy and the Narration of India -- 2. Producing Sri Lanka from Ceylon: J.R. Jayewardene and Sinhala Identity -- 3. Essentially Tamil: The Divergent Narratives of Eelam and Dravidinadu -- pt. II. Delusions of Grandeur: India, Tamil Nadu, and Sri Lanka -- 4. Modulating Bangladesh: India and Sri Lanka, 1980-84 -- 5. Hegemony as Spectacle: The Theater of Postcolonial Politics -- 6. Narratives in Contention: Interpreting the Agreement of July 1987 -- 7. Postcolonial Aporias: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence -- 8. Decolonizing the Future in South Asia -- App. 1. List of Interviewees -- App. 2. Text of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement of July 29, 1987.
650 _aDiplomatic relations
650 _aPolitics and government
942 _cWB16